The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-03
BOARD OF HEALTH.
RULES
Adopted by Board Of Health,
1887.

animal matter, shall not be buried within the
limits Of the city of Palatka, but must be re
moved beyond said limits.
Rule . The owner or occupant of a building
or the owner of vacant lot who shall receiv e
notice from Sanitary Inspector to clear any
water closet, or remove any offensive matter
from such premises, and shall fail 10 comply
in.,s,h noIic. snail h.. r,.norf..S 70 ms Roard
for prosecution under the law
Rule 3. Excavations for building for lay
ing drain or other pipes within the limits of
cities or towns are Prohibted from the
first day of June TO the first day of November
without permission of the Board.
Rule 4. No garbage, Offal, dead animals, ma
terials manufactured in whole or i'm part of
substances which evolve offensive gases dur
ing their decomposition. shall be left uncov-
cred All decaying animal or vegetable must be
moved from kitchens, cellars or building used
for storage, and disinfectants applied immc-
'iiately after such removal.
Rule ). Deposits of offensive matter. before
being disturbed for removal, must be deodor-
lied by application of dry earth, solution of
copperas, or other suitable absOrbents,
Rule d. Garbage accommodating from all
sources, in any city or town, shall be placed in a
receptacle on the side of a street, and shall bc
removed thrice in each week from the first
day of June to the first day of November. and
once in each week during other times. Sciiy-
for further use.
Rule :. Hogs shall not be kept in pens with
i'm the limits of the city of Palatka, nor shall
they lie kept elsewhere within one hundred
| feet of a sleeping apartment
1ilc . Animals Win tfllectlDnS or cOnta9l-
Gus diseases shall not he brought or kept with
| i'm the limits of any city town. nor else
where without permission of this Board.
Rule y. Dacayed or unwholesune meat,
vegetables, fruit or fish, or impure or adulter-
ated milk or other articles. shall not he sold or
offered for sale food, under pain of prosec,I-
ton 10y the President of the Board.
Rule 10 slaughter houses or butcher pens
dairies or cow-pens for vending milk, shall NOT
| be established or operated within the limits OF
a city or town. nor elsewhere unless properly
| licensed by this Board. Melting or rendering
for business of any description giving rise, 81
permitting the escape of offensive or unwhoIe-
some vapors or odors, shall not be established
or operated without permission, in writing
| from the President of this Board.
Rule III. Dead bodies passing through any
city or town reguiring.change from one case 81
coffin To another. must be transferred at d
cemtery
Rule IL. All domestic animals dying outside
| of city or town shall be buried by the owner
| or by the person upon whose premises such an
| imals die, within ten hours after death. and
not less than four feet under the surface oi
the ground, nor less than one hundred yard,
from any spring. branch, creek or well.
Rule IL. No building shall be removed from
one place to another within any city or town
from the first day of June To the first day oi
the direction of this Board or its properly
authorized agents.
the judgment of this Board are injurious to the
public health shall not be stored within d
quarter of "A mile of any city or town, MOI
within the same distance of the dwelling oi
any citizen of this county.
hult H. ANY nDu>tHOluef IN WHOSE dwell
ing there shall occur a case Of cholera, yellow
fever, scarlet fever. diphtheria. smallpox, Oi
other recognized infectious disease, shall i'm
medately notify this Board or any of its au-
thorized agents of the same and until instruc
tions are received from the same source shall
may have been exposed To infection to be re
moved from such house Nor shall any occu
pant of such dwelling reside elsewhere without
| consent of this Board
Rule 10. Every ply sician who shall be called
| To attend any infectious disease, particularly
I ted hall
once report such case to this Board for instruc
tons in regard thereto And whenever Their
/ stefan many cases of scarlet fever. measles
| typhoid fever, diphtheria. dysentery, eerebr'
| will satisfy him that an epidemic Thereof
| exists or that there is local cause there
same 10 this Board with s,,pa.stionl for tb.i
| action therein.
Rule L. No person or thing liable to propa
| gate a contagious or infectious disease shall b.
brought into this county except by the consen
and under the direction of this Board an,
! when il shall come To the knowledge of am
| citizen that such dangerous person or thin:
/ has been 50 introduced into this county, suci
| citizen having the knowledge thereof. shall
| Immediately give notice thereof to this Board
| with the location thereof, and all particular
| attending such introduction.
| Rule l.. No person having a contagious o.
| infectious disease shall be removed from on'
place TO another within this county, except b!
| PERMISSION, and under direction of this Boar
or its properly appointed agents.
| Rule Is. Persons with an infectious or eonta
tion therefrcm. shall be immediaieiy isoIate.I
| and no other person than the Attending physi
elan, nurses and spiritual adviser shall be al
lowed access
Rule -. Convalescents from any Infection
or contagious disease and their attendants
shall not he allowed to leave their premise
| without permission of the Board OF Health
| Rule Il Vessels, bedding and other article
| used by persons having a contagious or infe,
tious disease, shall be thoroughly treated witt
| approved disinfectants, under direction %
| this Board or destroyed, as ordered by thi
| Board or its authorized agents.
This is TO certify that the foregoing rules ~
| the Board of Health from one to- twenty-on
| inclusive were adopted by said Board in S.
| sion this 31st day Of May, lse..
j. G. AMES, N. D.,
my3l-1N Secretary and Treasurer